A Talk On Outdoor Chrysanthemums 



By Chas. H. Totty,- New Jersey. 



Til the average lay mind, the term outduur 'Mums, 

 until a very recent jjcriod, simply meant one thing — 

 Hardy Pompons, and while it is true that the I'dm- 

 .pons are hardy enough, still the faet that they do not 

 blooin until so late militates considerably against their 

 being of so nuich value to the cultivator, since the foli- 

 ■age is often badly marked by frost and culd winds 

 before the flowers develop. 



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The type of jilant we call "Early Flowering," which 

 has been largely (leveln])ed by .\ugust Nonin, of Paris, 



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France, is by far the most .«atisfacl(irv for gruwiiiL; 

 outdoors, and unless the situation in which the}' are 

 growing is very low or exposed, they will conn- 

 through the average winter safely enough. This Earh 

 Flowering type on which Mr. Nonin has sjient the 

 best years of his life, is a result of a strain of seedlings 



* Extracts from leclurt- givt-n .it Country Life Exposition, New ^*ork. 



from the old ragged liardv 'Mums of uur grandmoth- 

 ers' gardens. these latier did not have' ver\ much 

 beauty but everyone admired their sturdy indepen- 

 dence and the fact that from year to year their blooms 

 braved the heavy rains and not infrecjuently the early 

 winter snows. The number of varieties today of this 

 Early Flowering type is legion, but a dozen that I 

 would suggest as being the most likely to give satis- 

 faction outdoors would be about as follows: 



White: Cranford White: Dorothy; Marie Dufour; 

 Wm. F. Collier, and Xormandie. 'riie latter variety, 

 Normandie, is often classed as a delicate shade of pink, 

 but as a matter of fact the earlier flowers are almost 

 invariabl}- white. Normandie is the earliest variety 



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we have an.d under average conditions the most satis- 

 factory we have of this type. 



^'ello\v : C'ranfordia : Carrie, and Dctober Goki. 



Pink: P.eaurepaire : Fden : Le Danube, and Miss 

 P.urchfeld. 



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